Games Seen Played on TV Shows
Call Me Ishmael
United States
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Boardgames, especially Monopoly, are deeply engrained in other aspects of our popular culture. What boardgames have been featured in TV episodes or movies, either as a central plot or with the characters seen playing (as opposed to a prop)? I'm sure there must be others than Monopoly, so feel free to add!
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Call Me Ishmael
United States
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The Carol Burnett Show: Eunice, Ed, and Mama wind up in a huge fight, as Eunice, sensing her first-ever victory in anything, tries to force them to finish the game.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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I first realized just how popular Dungeons & Dragons had become in the early eighties when I saw E.T. and witnessed that scene with the kids engaged in a D&D session. When a game is featured in a Spielberg movie you know it's big.
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Board Game: Bridge
[Average Rating:7.50 Overall Rank:175]
Brent Easton
Australia
Berry
NSW
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That one was too easy
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Board Game: Chess
[Average Rating:7.09 Overall Rank:245]
Brent Easton
Australia
Berry
NSW
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Searching for Bobby Fischer is a great movie!
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Board Game: Risk
[Average Rating:5.62 Overall Rank:6167]
On Monday mornings, I'm dedicated to the proposition that All Men are created jerks.
United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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Seinfeld: Kramer and Newman get wrapped up in a game
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Board Game: Go
[Average Rating:7.77 Overall Rank:41]
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Spain
Chipiona
Cádiz
Korea is now up for pre-order!
BOO!
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"A Beautiful Mind" & "Pi"
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John Fu
United States
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X-Files:
Mulder is playing this game with his sister when she's abducted.
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Call Me Ishmael
United States
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The Ten Commandments: Nefretiri (Anne Baxter) and Seti are playing. Seti knocks off the head of a piece, which Rameses (Yul Brynner) drops in Nefretiri's lap, saying, "You lose your head, my sweet."
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Crypt Keeper
United States
Palmdale
California
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The Simpsons
Homer's useless letters: O-X-I-D-I-Z-E.
Id. As in, "This game is stup-id.
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Crypt Keeper
United States
Palmdale
California
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The Simpsons again.
"Ooh! Captain of the football team! He's so dreamy. Don't wait up Marge, rrrrrrrooooowwww."
Haha, you got the dud! Hey! He looks like you, Poindexter!
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David Lewis
United States
Tarboro
North Carolina
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The Ewings played this on "Dallas" while they had cocktails before dinner.
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dust in the wind
United States
Oconomowoc
Wisconsin
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On "Friends" they play this as Strip Happy Days instead of Strip Poker because there's no cards to be found. It's the one where they all go to the beach and Ross' girlfriend shaves her head bald.
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Call Me Ishmael
United States
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In the movie "Hero," Nameless fights his first opponent, Sky, in a teahouse, where he had been playing chess on a stone board in the rain. Beautiful scene!
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Gláucio Reis
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
RJ
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"Star Trek: Voyager", episode "Night". It's called a different (probably alien) name, but Tom Paris and B'Elanna seem to be playing it by the written rules: she gives him a piece and he places it on the board, then he gives her another piece.
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Chris Hawks
United States
Apple Valley
Minnesota
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Continually seen in "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
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Fraser
Australia
Melbourne
Yep that was 12 Power Grid maps back to back over two days. Worth doing, but possibly not in such a concentrated burst.
Ooh yes, now a little to the left - my nose is itchy. No, no the other left! Now what colour is 12 supporter badge going to be I wonder?
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Boggle was mentioned and the later played in the episode 8 "Middleman" of Jake 2.0. Jake was playing, and losing badly to, Dr Diana.
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Karl F.
United States
The City of Subdued Excitement
Washington
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Well -- he didn't actually play it, but Stephen Colbert has this on his bookshelf on the set of "The Colbert Report."
He placed it there (on the 5th anniversary of Bush being elected president, I believe) as a metaphor for the red/blue political divide.
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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Also on the Carol Burnett Show.
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A. C.
Canada
Toronto Area
Ontario
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Tic Tac Toe. Two diverse examples -
1) The movie Top Secret has a French Underground member firing shots through the individual panes of glass in a window, alternating with an enemy on the outside, one making X's, and the other O's.
2) The TV gameshow Hollywood Squares.
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Chapel
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Only for the love of the game...
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"Weeds"- Season 2 Episode 6 Aired Sept. 25th 2006 On Showtime .
The kid of the DEA Agent began playing Carcasonne with his dad. He even gave a snide remark about Carcassonne being a town in France with lots of walls castles and farms.
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paul miles
United States
Austin
Texas
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I remember on an episode of the late, lamented (by me, anyway) Karen Sisco, she slid open the door of a surveillance van to reveal the cops inside playing Parcheesi.
They invited her to play, but she had some perps to run down.
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A L D A R O N
United States
Boston
Massachusetts
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A favorite, at the Summers' house on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, especially for nights in with Dawn (or all-night spell induced shut-ins).
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Melissa
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
Best wishes to you all for 2011. xxx
Mostly offline, but trying.
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Seen played (when the police turn up to haul someone in) on about episode 5 of Life on Mars.
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Germán R. Gómez
United States
Chula Vista
California
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In the TV movie A Wrinkle In Time. A Carrom/Crokinole board is seen in a coupla scenes.
Maybe cause it was filmed in Canada.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/
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Dla kogo kogo, dla tego kogo.
Poland
Gdynia
Pomorskie
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Brian and Stewie played Yahtzee in one of the episodes of FAMILY GUY. Brian's comment about the game isn't very flattering though.
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Peggy Hill (King of the Hill) is a Boggle grognard
